Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Documentary Screening & Discussion with the Director, Byron Hurt
Friday, April 27, 2007
6:00 p.m. reception
7:00 p.m. screening
Doc Films, Ida Noyes Hall, Max Palevsky Theater
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, Illinois
$5.00 admission
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Discussion with Director Byron Hurt, moderated by Cathy Cohen (Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago), with Natalie Hopkinson and Natalie Y. Moore (Deconstructing Tyrone: A New Look at Black Masculinity in the Hip-Hop Generation) and Stephanie Shonekan (Professor of Humanities and Cultural Studies; Director, Black World Studies Program, Columbia College Chicago).
Film synopsis: “HIP-HOP: Beyond Beats and Rhymes takes an in-depth look at representations of manhood, sexism and homophobia in hip-hop culture. This groundbreaking documentary is a “loving critique” of certain disturbing developments in rap music culture from the point of view of a fan who challenges the art form’s representations of masculinity.”
Byron Hurt is the producer and director of the provocative film on machismo and homophobia in hip-hop, Beyond Beats and Rhymes: A Hip-Hop Head Weighs in On Manhood in Rap Music, which viewed at the Sundance film festival earlier this year. He’s also the producer of the award-winning documentary film, I Am a Man: Black Masculinity in America. Additionally, Hurt, is the associate director of Mentors in Violence Prevention-Marine Corps (MVP-MC), the first system-wide gender violence prevention program in the history of the United States military. Hurt has lectured and facilitated workshops at colleges and universities nationwide including the University of Kentucky, UMass-Amherst and St. John's University.
For more information on this film, visit www.itvs.org/outreach/hiphop/
Co-presented by the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture at the University of Chicago; Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media, Columbia College Chicago; International House Global Voices Performing Arts Series; and Doc Films at the University of Chicago. Sponsored by Boeing.
Persons with disabilities may request assistance in advance by contacting Doc Films at 773.702.8574 or docinfo@cs.uchicago.edu, and by contacting International House at 773.753.2274.
